Gold

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“Ah, as long as there's no find, the noble brotherhood will last but when the piles of gold begin to grow... that's when the trouble starts.” I first saw John Huston’s The Treasure of the Sierra Madre when I was very young,…

In February 2000 I emerged from my underground bunker, a converted passage tomb near The Hill of Tara, to discover that the world had not ended and the dreaded Y2K bug had failed to wipe out our species. I was relieved but lost. Months…

What’s a kilogram? We’d like fewer on our waistline but, at the greengrocer’s we want more (and for less money). If they’re gold, they cost tens of thousands of euros (each). They’re the first thing mentioned about a new baby. But what’s a…

How clean is your house? If Kim and Aggie’s industrial clean-outs in How Clean is Your House are your guilty pleasure then you might be interested in the large scale version. Researchers at Colorado have carried out a study of dust in…

A quirky, dysfunctional family drama that tells the story of a kid being pushed into something she doesn't want to do by an overbearing father. The arrival of a character coping with a failed suicide attempt stirs it all up. This is not an…